Ralph Rolle, master percussionist as far back as he can remember has always marched to the beat of a different drum. He began playing professionally at the age of 18. It is therefore no surprise that with almost 3 decades of professional experience within the music industry Ralph Rolle enjoys an illustrious career as a much sought after drummer and producer. Ralph's client list includes artists such as Biggie Smalls, Queen Latifah, Erykah Badu, Toshinobu Kubota, D'Angelo, John Legend, India Arie, Lillias White and many more.

    For the past 14 seasons, Ralph has been the Drummer for NBC's "It Showtime at The Apollo" with Ray Chew & The Crew. Ralph recently sat in for Anton Figg on "Letterman." while away on business. He played for some of the top Gospel artist on B.E.T.’s Celebration of Gospel 2005 and 2006 and The B.E.T. Music Awards 2007. In 1990 Ralph founded Phat Kat Productions, Inc. a music production company. Over the past 15 years Phat Kat Productions has produced, and arranged both orchestral and vocal musical segments for commercials such as Nike, Burger King, Miller Genuine Draft, and Dark & Lovely. Ralph has worked on many projects writing, re-mixing and editing recording projects for R & B , Rap, Gospel and Pop artists including Toshinobu Kubota, HiFive, Najee, Glenn Jones, Johnathan Butler, Al Green and the list goes on.

    Ralph Rolle has been seen and heard performing on many television shows and sound tracks like The David Letterman Show, The Chris Rock Show, Vibe, Planet Groove, The Keenan Ivory Wayans Show, The Cosby Show, A Different World, New York Under Cover, One Life To Live, Good Day New York, Maury, Good Morning America, Fox After Breakfast, N.B.C. Today Show, Top Of The Pops(London), Siempre En Domingo(Mexico), Jon Stewert, Pat Sajack, Regis and Kathie Lee, Music Fair (TV Asahi, Japan), Beat Street Sound Track, Love Jones Sound Track, On the Ropes Sound Track(Academy Award Nomination)

    Expertise and opportunities such as these, have launched Ralph in to the coveted position of Musical Director for a morning talk and variety show, The Caroline Rhea Show.

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